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The Descent to Hell
From the Aeneid - Book 6
Translated by James Elroy Flecker
Narrated by Denis Daly
Among his many other attributes, James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry.
In 1913 he planned to write a book to be entitled "An interpretation in blank verse of Virgil, Aeneid VI, based on the poetic value of the sounds, together with Latin text and ten prefaces."
Flecker described the intention onf the book as follows:
"The book is simply an attempt to do a translation of
Virgil as satisfactory as Fitzgerald's 'Omar' — a translation which will utterly eclipse the very numerous and very feeble attempts hitherto existing."
The surviving translation consists of lines 1-19 and 264-547 from Book Six, which describe Aeneas' encounter with the Sibyl and his visit to the underworld.
